VakAttack

There are plenty of great movies coming out, most of them just aren't making it to theaters because the only thing people pay to see are tent pole IP projects. Which I watch but have to admit have largely dropped in quality.

...are there not numerous things the penis is referred to other than a penis?

I told you, I found the bonus hole language silly. That ends my interest, though. I didn't "intimate" anything, I just commented directly on the "bonus hole" thing you posted being a nothing-burger (IMO). There has definitely been a push to shift some language, and I see that as a natural thing with how we interact with language. Like my predecessors, some of it I listen to and think "sure that makes sense" and sometimes we have things like my kids calling a hot dog a "glizzy" and I think "man, that's stupid."

Language has changed throughout the history of the world. We use different language now than we used when I was born in 1983, which was different than language we used when my father was born in 1954, which is different from when his father was born, and so on and so forth. I'm not being disingenuous. I don't care. You might care, and that's fine. Different strokes. I'm far more concerned with other things in the world.

This obviously doesn't even make logical sense. He won't paint the word "dick" because he doesn't believe in trans people? You straining to find some chink in my armor is weird. I'm sure I have hypocrisies somewhere in my belief system. I'm a human being.

What hearing are they doing today? is the Wray hearing?

By saying no, you're still not discriminating against them base on any of the protected classes. ...because of *gestures at American history* all of this.

No, because if the painter refuses to work with you, they're not discriminating against you based on a protected class.

It's not compelled speech is the problem, it's discriminating in who you offer your services to based on sexual orientation.

What does that have to do with refusing to provide a service? If she made the website for the fictional gay couple's wedding, is she now gay? What part of her religion allows for this discrimination. Near as I can tell, prior to her sudden desire to make wedding websites, she was working on political campaign websites. You telling me none of those folks ever committed a sin?

Yes. If one is a widespread religious belief and one is an individual person's belief, that holds more weight with me as to the allowances I'm willing to make to organized religions which I don't believe in. The tenet of "not making websites for gay people" is made up.

and SCOTUS had ruled that way. But they purposely mischaracterized to reach their desired outcome. Prioviding someone a service is not the same thing as adopting that speech and thus forcing them to speak. If I hire a painter to put a mural on the side of Willie's house saying "VakAttack is the greatest internet poster in the world" that does not mean the painter of said mural has adopted that speech as his own. For a more real world example, if a restaurant owner ordered a sign made that said "John's Restaurant: World's Best Hamburger" the sign-maker does not necessarily believe that John's Restaurant makes the world's best hamburger, he's providing a service. This woman wanted to be able to deny her (at the time fictional) services to an apparently fictional gay couple.

Where did I exclude a Muslim? Are you talking about comparing producing an image of Mohammed, a well-known central tenet of Islamic practitioners no no, vs. this woman's wish not to provide services to gay people? Should are laws be subjected to each individual's sincerely held religious belief, even if that doesn't conform w/ the widespread practice of that religion? Where does that stop? What if this same person claims she truthfully believes based on previous interpretations of Genesis 9:18-27 that black people are inferior to white people, should she be allowed to discriminate against them as well in terms of making a wedding web site?

Sure, that bonus hole thing sounds ridiculous, but from what I can tell it comes from one random charity in England where they offered it in their literature as a suggested alternative to check w/ people if they'd be more comfortable with that language, not a demand from the medical community that the language be changed for everybody all over the world. So yes, it sounds stupid to me, but it's a tiny thing from one group offered as a suggestion, not a "rebranding of the vagina." If we're going to get mad about every dumb thing someone says in the world...

Is that a serious question? Yes, I would have a problem if anybody, Muslim or not, discriminated against another group. If anybody has the idea that I prefer any organized religion over another, please allow me to dissuade you.

Nobody asked me a question.

The persecution complex some of y'all have is adorable

...it's from June 30. Twelve days ago. I didn't ignore it, you made no real point. Not producing imaged of Mohammed is a widespread tenet of practitioners of Islam. There's nothing in the Bible that says you can't make website for gay people, and you can see that from the number of Christian people throughout the country and the world that both accept gay people and provide them services.

It's 100% what the case is about. Her business wasn't open when she filed suit, I don't know if it's open now. It turns out the alleged "request" she got from a gay couple to work on a website is likely fake, either by her or (less likely) someone trolling her unopened business, and she sought approval to not have to serve gay people (again for a business that wasn't even open at the time). Here's some reporting on the alleged request from the "gay couple" showing that it is, in fact, fake: https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-lgbtq-rights-colorado-business-owner-made-up-claim-2023-6

Me: Here's data with sources and studies. You: No, your data is stupid and also I don't enjoy the presentation. I however will bring nothing outside of my opinion to the subject. My dude, it's a wrestling forum, I'm not going to write you a dissertation, and as you've already displayed, it would be pointless because you would dismiss all of it immediately without any examination based off one piece of it that you don't like. However, I understand, when you're extremely long and your opinion is not based on anything other than your political ideology, that almost has to be your default defense.

Has there ever been a "dead person voting" situation? Sure, but they are extremely rare. Has a dead person ever voted for a Democrat? I'm sure it's happened, but again, exceedingly, exceedingly rare. There is zero evidence of any sort of widespread voting fraud throughout the country. It would be a stupid crime to commit with very little ROI. It's relatively easy to detect, which is again why you don't it. The boogeyman you're citing is a figment of your imagination. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debunking-voter-fraud-myth

I'll take "things that almost never happen" for $1,600, Alex.

Yeah. I don't think it's anger, usually, it can just present that way sometimes. Other than the time he told me to suck Pyles' dick. Like I said, Willie is good people in my book, even if we disagree politically on many things.

Willie definitely can come off as angry on-line occasionally, but I can only tell you from my personal experience he's always been very happy and pleasant every time I've met him in person. Good dude.